Both sides say they hope to avoid personal nastiness, and they expect a straightforward trial that could last three to six weeks.
John Ashcroft, the attorney-general, has said that after a "relatively short and straightforward" trial in Birmingham, Mr Rudolph will face charges for the three Atlanta bombings.
A straightforward trial-and-error approach has a high risk of being time and chemical consuming due to the large number of parameters to be optimized.
Using a relation issued from the force versus penetration depth diagrams, the estimation of these three contact force parameters can be reduced to the estimation of two independent parameters which roles are well defined and distinct; therefore this estimation can be accomplished with a straightforward trial and error procedure.
"In essence we need straightforward clinical trials, as for any drug for any disease, but new ways of working will be needed to provide rapid and reliable answers in perhaps the most challenging outbreak we have ever encountered," he said.
What did happen, in the end, was something of a straightforward murder trial, stripped of the larger, inflammatory political aspects, leaving it up to 12 jurors to sort through a familiar assortment of evidence: witness testimony and forensic findings.
Courts, he believes, should stick to their basic function of applying laws, even unpleasant ones; they should not stray into politics or policymaking.Because of these views, it is tempting to hope that Mr Rehnquist will insist on a straightforward impeachment trial, uncontaminated by partisanship.
"It's not a straightforward time-trial - it's quite technical in places.
The case -- which initially appeared to be a straightforward murder trial, has become somewhat of a daytime drama, with sex, lies and ultimately, a brutal homicide.
The Load effect was straightforward; performance on trials with low memory load averaged 80.3%, compared to 74.6% on trials with high load.
